I did a strobe session in our room the other day.I worked on some portrait shot but with a limited success.
So after a while, I ended in shooting to every human and cats that were standing in the room...
Here is one of the picture. Self standed camera against the ceiling, a flash in umbrella is used as the main light source.

Wow, that really is a great shot! I love the shallow DoF and the perspective effect.

Two small remarks, though: there is a bit too much orange highlights to my taste (some selective desaturation in camera raw would correct that in a second) and disturbing flares in both eyes that could easily be cloned out and give the impression that you are crying :)Alexandre @ Dec